What was part of President Washington's farewell address?
Avoid alliances, avoid European conflicts, and stay neutral.
This is the idea that it's the US's God given right to expand the country coast to coast.
What is Manifest Destiny?
Which network helped slaves escape slave-owners and reaching the free states?
Underground Railroad.
Who was the 16th president of the US?
Abraham Lincoln.
This person assassinated president Lincoln.
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
Which historical figure founded the National Bank?
Whomst is Alexander Hamilton?
This group of people were opposed to the annexation of new western territory.
Who are the abolitionists?
What was the decision on the Dred Scott case?
Congress cannot ban slavery in US territories. OVERTURNS MISSOURI COMPROMISE.
What was Lincoln’s primary goal?
To preserve the Union.
This president was in office during the reconstruction.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
What was the whiskey rebellion?
A tax on alcohol that led to a rebellion in western Pennsylvania
This event resulted in an increase of westward migration.
What is the Gold Rush?
What was the Missouri Compromise?
A law that admitted Missouri as a slave state, and Maine as a free state.
What text did Lincoln Suspend the writing of?
Habeas Corpus
Reconstruction followed this war.
What is the Civil War?
What is the XYZ Affair?
When French officials demanded a bribe from US diplomats.
Manifest Destiny led to this war.
What is the Mexican-American War?
Which Act was a debate on whether new states admitted to the union would be free or slave states?
Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854
What was Lincoln’s famous quote about the sectional differences?
“A house divided against itself cannot stand”
Lincoln wanted to forgive what group of Americans?
Who are the southerners/Confederate?
What was the Alien and Sedition Acts?
A series of 4 laws enacted in 1798 to reduce the political power of recent immigrants in the US.
Supporting the annexation of Texas and California, this person wanted to succeed in Manifest Destiny.
Who is President James Polk?
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Bleeding Kansas was a phrase used to describe the clashes between _____ and _____ groups.
Pro-slavery and Anti-slavery
Why did Lincoln Free the slaves still held by the Confederates?
To help the North win the war.
The Radical Republicans wanted this given to newly freed slaves.
What are voting rights?